Here's how Mark Zuckerberg chooses who sits next to him at the Facebook office

Here’s how Mark Zuckerberg chooses who sits next to him at the Facebook office

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. During Fast Company’s recent in-depth look into Facebook’s plans for the future – which includes artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and drones – one employee offered some interesting insight into the way CEO Mark Zuckerberg decides who sits next to him. It turns out that Zuckerberg has a “signature move” to help him “absorb new material,” where he places teams near to his desk that in charge of new initiatives or areas he’d like to learn more about. Yann LeCun, a New York University faculty member and head of Facebook’s AI Research headquarters in Manhattan, told Fast Company that Mark Zuckerberg actually shuffled the seating order of the office so that artificial intelligence researchers who were located at its main campus would be in his direct vicinity. …